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How did a plaintiff with no lawyer convince a federal appellate court that he had a viable FMLA claim?

The Employer Handbook

On January 3, 2014, he reported to work amid a snowstorm. On January 28, 2014, the plaintiff’s doctor prepared a Family and Medical Leave Act certification to support a forthcoming request by the plaintiff for three months of leave. The plaintiff was a patient representative with a local hospital.

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WIRTW #404 (the “home is where is art is” edition)

Ohio Employer's Law

Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination HR 101: Temporary disabilities and the ADA — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Dilemma of the Month: When a Personal Matter Gets Professional — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas Preventing Discrimination For Dummies! —

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WIRTW #353 (the “sphere of influence” edition)

Ohio Employer's Law

via Texas Employment Law Blog Union Membership Declines In 2014 — via Labor Relations Today NLRB: Employers may terminate employees for insubordinate social media messages — via Technology for HR. what I''m reading'

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Plan Sponsors Must Now Analyze 401(k) Plan Administration (Part 1)

HR Daily Advisor

The IRS last updated the model special tax notices in Notice 2014-74 to incorporate changes in the law since 2009, but as of yet has not issued an update incorporating the Code changes made by TCJA. Tomorrow we will look at part 2 of this article, including compensation definition and hardship distributions.

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Bring Your Own Device: Good for Business if Done Correctly

Compensation Today

Here are two important points about the prevalence of personal devices HR leaders and business owners need to consider: For the reporting years of 2014 and 2015, BYOD existed in over half the 300 companies surveyed with 35% of organizations officially allowing it and 20% did not officially allow. Develop your policy now. Click To Tweet.

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What your business can do NOW to prepare for the DOL ‘Blacklisting’ rules and guidance.

The Employer Handbook

In 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. In general terms (I’ll get a little more specific below), the Blacklisting rules require prospective federal contractors and subcontractors to disclose anything that may appear on a laundry list of labor-and-employment-law faux pas.

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5 costly employment myths we need to discard

HR Morning

In 2014 , the median number of years employees stayed at a company was 4.6 ” This taboo topic is still in a few handbooks across the nation and spoken about in hushed, forbidden tones. Both decisions were made because job hopping is sweeping the nation like an epidemic, right? “We can’t punish Jill. .